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Duplicate from a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12294976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12294976

• nfrly 10y ago
  there's an old orwell quotation, "it's the assholes in berets who ruin it for all of us." when scripted announced they were raising a round to build out an editing platform that took advantage of an open secret copy-editors keep to themselves: good writing is decidedly formulaic....I was excited. articles like this make it clear they took the cash and started a social club instead.